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Finally, the variety choices are converted into traits of preference (Table 3-7). Overall grain yield is regarded by farmers as a composite trait encompassing several traits of appeal to them. In addition to this and because of the fast growing groundnut confectionery market, uniformity of the grain for industrial uses as determined by pod filling and grain size and the attractiveness of the grain for market (marketability) forms a significantly important criteria for variety preference. Both pod filling, pod/grain size and market appeal was found in ICGV-SM 99557 which again ranked top. Considering variety marketability alone, ICGV-SM 99557, ICGV-SM 99555 ranked 1 st , followed by Pendo. In addition to guiding the breeder about trait preferences, this methodology was also of great assistance in the identification of the varieties that ended up being released in both Tanzania and Mozambique. Varieties for release were also identified in Malawi – which should be released before the end of year 4 of the project. Trait preferences were therefore summed up as high yields, early maturity in the predominantly short-duration environments, large seeds for the European export and confectionery markets, small-seeded for local use in Mozambique and industry use in South Africa (chocolate coated nuts), tan color for both Malawi and Mozambique and both tan and red colored varieties for Tanzania. Farmers in all countries mentioned disease resistance but as long as the variety was high yielding – it was assumed disease is no longer an issue. Fast-track release of ‘on-the-shelf’ varieties PVS was used as a tool for fast-track release of elite improved varieties which were in the program but not yet released. This involved the evaluation of more than 148 groundnut mother trials (36 YR1, 60 YR2, 28 YR3, and 24 YR4) and 440 baby trials (120 YR1, 174 YR2, 74 YR3 and 72 YR4) in Malawi, 60 mother trials and 300 baby trials in Tanzania, and 48 mother trials and 162 baby trials in Mozambique. This evaluation resulted into the following successes in the three countries: Tanzania Five new varieties were released in 2009. ICGV-SM 99555 or Naliendele 2009 and ICGV-SM 99557 or Mangaka 2009 early maturing (90-100 days) drought and rosette disease resistant (Spanish bunch);. CG 7 or Mnanje 2009, ICGV-SM 01721 or Masasi 2009 and ICGV-SM 01721 or Nachingea 2009 medium maturity (100 – 110 days), high yielding (up to 2.5 MT per ha). Masasi 2009 is also resistant to rosette. All three of them are Virginia bunch types. Mozambique Six improved new varieties were released in June 2011. Five of them are Spanish and one Virginia. ICGV-SM 01513, ICGV-SM 01514 are early maturing with combined rosette and ELS resistance, ICGV- SM 99541, ICGV-SM 99568 are early maturing with rosette resistance and JL 24 is early maturing good taste. CG 7 is medium maturing Virginia type. All of them have the potential to double the yields of the farmer’s local which is currently popular throughout the country providing just 700 – 800 kg per ha. Malawi Two new varieties ICGV-SM 96714 and ICGV-SM 99567 (Spanish) and two Virginia ICGV-SM 01708 and ICGV-SM 01728 are under pre-release in Malawi and they have been identified on the basis of farmer and market preferences. These will be presented to the technology clearing committee sometime this year for release New high yielding varieties developed ICRISAT maintains a regional groundnut improvement centre at Chitedze Research Station in Malawi from where NARS are supplied with their germplasm requirements. Over the past three years of Phase 1, a total of more than 1600 new breeding lines have been availed to NARS in Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique for evaluation against Groundnut Rosette Disease (GRD), Early Leaf Spots (ELS), rust, aflatoxin and drought to identify durable sources of resistance. The following sources have been identified and are currently in use for hybridization to develop mapping populations for QTL identification with support from TL I. 42 Engaging Smallholder Farmers | Tropical Legumes II Project
Sources of rust resistance; 92R/70-4, ICGV 94114, ICGV-SM 86021and ICGV-SM 02536 which combines rust and ELS. Additional rust resistant lines found from the germplasm reference set includes: ICGV 02194, ICG 11426, ICGV 01276 and ICGV 02286; • Sources of rosette resistance: ICG 14705, ICG 15405, ICG 13099, and ICG 9449 identified from the groundnut reference set; • Sources of ELS resistance identified from the groundnut reference set: ICG 5663, ICG 4156, ICG 721, and ICG 9905; and • Sources of drought resistance; ICG 14390, ICG 14778, ICGV SM 00537 and ICGV SM 03535 identified from field trials. An average of 20 to 25 sets of trials was dispatched annually to collaborating partners in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania for on-station evaluation against various stresses. These trial sets normally includes: Elite short-duration groundnut variety trials (25 genotypes), Elite Virginia bunch drought resistant groundnut variety trial (20 genotypes), Elite Spanish bunch rosette resistant groundnut variety trial (25 genotypes), Elite Spanish bunch drought resistant groundnut variety trial (20 genotypes), and Elite rust resistant groundnut variety trial (16 genotypes) etc. For Malawi, these trials are normally established at Chitedze, Chitala, Kasinthula and Ngabu. In Mozambique they are established at Nampula, Zambezia, Chokwe and Inhacoongo (Inhambane) whereas in Tanzania trials are conducted at Naliendele, Nachingwea, Hombolo, Makutopora, Bihawana and Tumbi Research Stations. Trials are jointly monitored by ICRISAT and concerned NARS and data reported in appropriate annual planning and review meetings for the project. For the entire period, over 100 international/regional trial sets including varieties and advanced/elite lines were distributed for evaluation between 2008 and 2010. Similarly, the groundnut reference set (259 varieties) and recombinant inbred lines - RILs (300) were distributed for drought and disease phenotyping in Malawi and Tanzania in conjunction with TLI. Performance of some of the trial sets in select partner research stations is highlighted in the annex tables. New crosses at ICRISAT-Malawi Hybridization activities have been conducted at Chitedze Research Station in Malawi from the beginning of the project, 2007 to date. Main aspects of the hybridization program include the following: • Incorporation of rust resistance. Four mapping populations are currently at F6. Phenotyping and genotyping of these populations with 5000 available SSR markers will begin in 2012; • Incorporation of ELS resistance. The only ELS resistant varieties (two of them) were released this year in Mozambique otherwise there was none for the whole region. The program now has three mapping populations currently at F6. New populations have been initiated from better sources of resistance identified from screening of the groundnut reference set; • We have reached BC3F1 populations of several farmer-market preferred varieties for incorporation of disease resistance. These include such popular varieties as CG 7, JL 24 and Pendo that are released in all three countries but susceptible to rosette, ELS and rust. We have started with rosette incorporation; and • The program currently maintains more than 3500 progenies for rust, 1500 progenies for ELS and 400 for rosette from segregating populations (F3 – F6) developed for variety improvement through pedigree breeding. Upgrade skills and capacity Infrastructure for active breeding program have been developed in all participating countries as follows: In Tanzania, facilities now exist for green houses for disease screening, fridges for preservation of samples (seed and disease), rainout shelter and Leaf Area meter for drought screening and Spad meter for chlorophyll measurements in drought screening trials. In Malawi the NARS have similarly been equipped with a rainout shelter, two glass houses, one portable weather station and irrigation pump Malawi to help them maintain offseason breeding nurseries. In all the countries on the job training and academic training to MSc degree level complemented the infrastructure developed. The program trained one Tanzanian to MSc degree level at Sokoine University of Agriculture. Training on groundnut Progress of Phase 1 43
Page 1 and 2: Tropical Legumes II Project TROPICA
Page 3: TROPICAL LEGUMES II Tropical Legume
Page 6 and 7: Seed Production and Delivery System
Page 8 and 9: Enhancing Pigeonpea Productivity an
Page 10 and 11: NARES NASFAM NASSPA NPT NSC NSO NSS
Page 12 and 13: TL II was implemented in 10 target
Page 14 and 15: country governments in agricultural
Page 16 and 17: Table 1-2: continued Variety code (
Page 18 and 19: Table 1-3: Seed production and deli
Page 20 and 21: As stated earlier in this chapter,
Page 22 and 23: Table 1-5: Graduate degree students
Page 24 and 25: Ndjeunga J, Ibro A, Cisse Y, Ben Ah
Page 26 and 27: Project background Groundnut is one
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Page 30 and 31: Table 2-6: Performance of ICGV 9111
Page 32 and 33: Table 2-11: Results of 255 paired c
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Page 38 and 39: Project sites Tamil Nadu The presen
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Page 42 and 43: Training course A total of four tra
Page 44 and 45: Background The yield of groundnut i
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Page 54 and 55: hybridization techniques, design of
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Table 5-4: Cowpea breeding lines se
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Cowpea varieties released The proje
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Table 5-8: Number of days to flower
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Evaluation for phosphorus-use effic
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Figure 5-8: Reactions of some culti
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ASS6 ASS64 ASS110 ASS56 Figure 5-9:
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Figure 5-10: Meeting of farmers’
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The best approach to spread the imp
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declining soil fertility, increasin
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In Nigeria, the small seed pack app
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Phase I Social Sciences research in
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The consequences are that the impro
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about half of area share of land al
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Figure 6-3: Average area (ha) per h
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single lingering bottleneck on whic
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In Kenya, the small seed pack appro
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Summary, process gains and people r
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Fast-Tracking and Technology Genera
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Figure 6-6: Distribution of PVS sit
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Table 6-12: Yields of fast track bu
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Table 6-15: Farmer evaluation of in
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While the fast track entries were r
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Technology generation Mechanistic s
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60 50 Rainfall Pan evaporation Maxi
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Table 6-22: Yield under drought ind
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Number of degree training students
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Number of NARS technicians trained
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Rain-out shelter in CIAT-Colombia T
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Impact assessment and enhancement P
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Annex 6-2: TL IIEthiopia: decentral
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farmers for enhancing their awarene
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• Designing, testing and implemen
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Andhra Pradesh The overall sample s
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Prakasam district: Crops grown in P
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Constraints in adoption of chickpea
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Cost-benefit analysis for chickpea
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Identification of farmer-and-market
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Table 7-6: Breeder Seed of differen
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Capacity building Knowledge empower
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Table 7-15: Training of local seed
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• In addition to yield, maturity
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Introduction Chickpea is grown in E
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Chickpea seed access The first majo
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Grades and standards About 75% of t
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Table 8-6: Varieties used in PVS tr
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private sector lacks the incentive
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• LZARDI-Ukiriguru: Land along wi
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• Establishing functional legume
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Table 9-1: Farmers’ preferred var
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Table 9-3: Baby trials conducted in
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Table 9-5: Reaction of pigeonpea li
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TL II focuses on farmer-participato
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Production of Breeder, Foundation,
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Mahaboobnagar and Ranga Reddy distr
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(Table 9-9 Continued) Particular To
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Chichewa) and Tanzania (Swahili). O
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Available technologies Although imp
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and Chitedze in Malawi showed that
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Table 10-6: Various classes of qual
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Awareness activities Farmers’ fie
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Annex 10-1: Target locations for pi
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Adoption studies Adoption studies f
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3.5 Yields (Tonnes/hectare) 3.0 2.5
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Table 11-1: Preferred soybean trait
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The up-scaling program signals the
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Across districts, TGx 1740-2F out-y
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Table 11-9: Communities and famers
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Table 11-14 Average performance of
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Table 11-15: Release notes of the t
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In Nigeria, across locations mean p
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Table 11-21: Grain yield (kg per ha
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Progress in selection of Bradyrhizo
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the major soybean producing localit
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Seed Production and Delivery System
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Table 11-29: Quantity (MT) of Found
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utilization and marketing. In Niger
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Annex 11-2: Tobit Model estimate of
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